W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls Of Black Folk

W.E.B. Du Bois’: The Souls of Black Folk During 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois’ complied the influential book called The Souls of Black Folk, highlighting the struggles and experiences African Americans and Du Bois had. The formatting of the book varies from an autobiography to a series of essays, with each having a different theme. Du Bois meshes in life stories of the South and testimonies that his peers, himself, and others expressed. In these life stories, part of the focus was on the legacy of slavery and the struggles of being a black person in the South. The other part of the focus was on education amongst the black population, where education correlated with rising about the situation. The first handful of essays dealt with the historical and political problems of
He also described himself as a conjurer for the African culture. What this meant was that he expressed feeling for the oppressed and vulnerable people and also had the ability to sermonize social gospels relevant to the black community. He then describes that the role of a black preacher is to unify and reconcile African Americans through facilitating some sort of spiritual rebirth, allowing for a confidence boost. Alongside that, sorrow songs were created to relieve the stress African Americans get through discrimination and hardships, as well as express themselves and their freedom in this world. While racial discrimination today is still apparent in many places, many influential people such as Du Bois did serve as catalysts to easing it. In the 1900s, racial discrimination was terribly callous by today’s standards. Thanks to what Du Bois had to write, it made people open their eyes to the “black experience” that past African Americans dealt with. Racism will linger on as time passes, but the experiences shared are continually making racial discrimination increasingly unacceptable, not just for African American people, but for all groups of